Hello,

I have an idea for a new Wikimedia sister project [1] that I would like to share, here, for discussion. This idea occurred when considering a recent AI project, Delphi [2].

The gist of the idea is a wiki Q&A platform [3] designed for interoperation with AI Q&A systems. As envisioned, AI research teams could download the wiki Q&A software platform, install the software, and then develop AI Q&A systems which interoperate with the scalable wiki platform using the platform’s API. The gist includes that these AI systems could bootstrap Q&A pages with automatically-generated answers to questions such that expert users could subsequently edit these pages, providing input for the continuously improving AI systems.

In theory, such structured wiki’s could generate XHTML utilizing appropriate Web schema [4][5] for broader interoperability.

Each structured wiki page could contain multiple answers and each answer could be supported by explanation and argumentation.

Each structured wiki page, a question and answer(s), could also have an accompanying discussion page or threaded forum [6] as well.

Scenarios of specific interest to me include moral question answering systems like Delphi [2].

The indicated approach would seemingly require some paraphrase detection components to detect paraphrases of questions.

I hope that these ideas are of some interest. Any thoughts on these topics?

Best regards,

Adam Sobieski

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_new_projects

[2] https://delphi.allenai.org/ (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.07574.pdf)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_software

[4] https://schema.org/Question

[5] https://schema.org/Answer

[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions